Anthony Browne Quotes

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Live
  • Women
  • Why

• Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • May
  • Today
  • Parents

• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Dark

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Up
  • You
  • Challenge

• Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Never
  • Cancer
  • Mouth

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • American
  • Community
  • White

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• No one likes change but babies in diapers.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • Change
  • Likes
  • Diapers

• Of course I have had a boyfriend. However, I was way too busy while taking care of myself, and I could not show a better care for my boyfriend. I found myself getting more and more egocentric, and I was not a good girlfriend at all.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Better

• You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • You
  • Know

• I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • See
  • Taste

• I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

  

  Leon Askin
  • American
  • Interesting
  • Air

• I work my butt off to stay in shape, especially after having had a baby.

  

  Poppy Montgomery
  • Work
  • Baby

• Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • Money
  • Go Down

• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Different
  • Home
  • House

• While it is not always profitable to analogize 'fact' to 'fiction,' La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

  

  Anthony Browne